Sweetshop
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
"Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead."
- 2 A drug dealer. euphemistic, slang
Example
More examples"Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead."
Etymology
From sweet + shop.